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MacKinnon argues that sexual harassment laws are a necessary corrective to the oppressive patriarchy of the workplace, and she wants current laws stiffened.
With her belief that unwanted sexual advances and utterances (and even, in some cases, wanted ones) degrade women so profoundly that it's worth limiting free speech to prevent them, MacKinnon laid the intellectual groundwork for today's sexual harassment laws.
MacKinnon's position, however, is hardly fringe.
"Gender essentialists," notably Catherine MacKinnon, have turned workplaces into battlegrounds by insisting that almost any sexual interaction between a man and a woman is coercive.
2) Influenced by MacKinnon and others, what the women's movement decided to seek in the courts was equal protection plus : the right to work plus special protection against nasty people in the workplace; the right to make their own sexual decisions plus special protection against older, savvier guys who take advantage.